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Synopsis
At the once-splendid Imperial Hotel, chef Gabriel Lightfoot is trying to run a tight kitchen. But his integrity and his sanity are under constant challenge from an exuberantly multinational staff, a gimlet-eyed hotel management, and business partners with whom he is planning a new venture. Despite the pressure, his hard work looks set to pay off. Until the discovery of a porter's dead body in the kitchen appears to tip the scales. It is a small death, a lonely death - but it is enough to disturb the tenuous balance of Gabe's life. "In The Kitchen" is Monica Ali's stunning follow up to Brick Lane. It is both the portrait of a man pushed to the edge, and a wry and telling look into the melting pot which is our contemporary existence. It confirms Monica Ali not only as a great modern storyteller but also an acute observer of the dramas of modern life.
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The kitchen of the title is the Imperial Hotel in central London and Ali’s dazzling accounts of its manic goings-on make Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential seem as genteel as Fanny Cradock. --Sunday Times
Monica Ali’s In the Kitchen is set among London’s illegal workers and prefigured the credit crunch. A mature, bleak and beautifully crafted novel.” --Sunday Telegraph (Best Books of the Year 2009)
This is a bold novel from an intelligent writer who is determined to explore difficult relationships and uncomfortable conditions in 21st-century Britain. --Independent on Sunday
Does Gabe get his Michelin star, that odd confirmation that cooking is about prizes rather than sustenance? What matters more is that Monica Ali is here confirmed as a three-star presence in British fiction. Her best book yet. --Scottish Sunday Herald
Ali is on top form when she captures the kitchen in full flow, efficiency running on an undercurrent of violence. Here cameos are masterful ... Ali is a clever, careful writer, a rich observer of detail...An elegant novel ...This is a book about what it means to live in the 21st century, what it means to be good in this world of moral and political quicksand ... We can look at Lightfoot and see something of ourselves. --Scotsman
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The brilliant new novel from the bestselling author of Brick Lane.
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- PublisherBlack Swan
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0552774863
- ISBN 13 9780552774864
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages560
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